Systems and methods for providing beacon-based notifications

• US 10,110,686 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2017
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Shirriff, Kenneth William, Haridass, Prasad, Gajda, Damian, Secor, Matthew Joelson
• Primary Examiner(s): File, Erin M
• Application Number:
  US15/435,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20170163748A1
• Time in Patent Office: 613 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/182 Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/22 using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

Systems and method of providing beacon-based notifications are provided. More particularly, an identifying signal can be received from a beacon device. A geographic location of a user device can be determined based at least in part on the identifying signal. At least a portion of time-based contextual beacon data can then be obtained based at least in part on spatial-temporal data associated with a user. One or more notifications associated with the contextual beacon data can then be determined. The one or more notifications can indicative of information corresponding to the beacon device, and can be provided for display on a user device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of providing notifications to a user, the method comprising:

detecting, by one or more computing devices, a beacon device;

obtaining, by the one or more computing devices, at least a portion of time-based contextual data associated with the beacon device, wherein the time-based contextual data comprises information associated with one or more time periods for one or more events at a geographic location of the beacon device;

determining, by the one or more computing devices, a concurrence between at least a portion of the time based-contextual data and user data associated with a user;

responsive to determining the concurrence, determining, by the one or more computing devices, one or more notifications based at least in part on the time-based contextual data; and

providing for display, by the one or more computing devices, at least one of the one or more notifications associated with the one or more events for which the corresponding one or more time periods have not expired, wherein providing for display at least one of the one or more notifications further comprises ranking the one or more notifications based at least in part on the geographic location of the beacon device and providing for display the notifications that are above a priority threshold.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein detecting the beacon device comprises receiving an identifying signal from the beacon device.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising providing, by the one or more computing devices, data indicative of the identifying signal to a remote computing device;

wherein obtaining at least a portion of time-based contextual data comprises receiving, by the one or more computing devices, the at least a portion of time-based contextual data from the remote computing device.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising:

determining, by the one or more computing devices, the geographic location of the beacon device based at least in part on the identifying signal; and

determining, by the one or more computing devices, a user location based at least in part on the geographic location of the beacon device.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the time-based contextual data comprises calendar data associated with the beacon device.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the user data comprises calendar data associated with the user.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the user data comprises spatial temporal data comprising a user location and either a current time or a user specified time.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the one or more computing devices, a user input associated with the at least one of the one or more notifications; and

responsive to the user input, performing one or more actions associated with the time-based contextual data.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the one or more actions comprises providing for display travel directions to a destination determined to be relevant to a user based at least in part on the user data.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the one or more actions comprises providing for display information associated with the at least a portion of time-based contextual data.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein providing for display at least one of the one or more notifications further comprises ranking the one or more notifications based at least in part on the relevance of the notifications to the user, and providing for display the notifications that are above a priority threshold.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the ranking is determined based at least in part on at least one of a search history of the user, or a location history of the user.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein providing for display at least one of the one or more notifications further comprises identifying one or more duplicate notifications, and filtering the one or more duplicate notifications such that the one or more duplicate notifications are not provided for display to the user.

14. A computing system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memory devices storing computer-readable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising;

detecting a beacon device;

obtaining at least a portion of time-based contextual data associated with the beacon device, wherein the time-based contextual data comprises information associated with one or more time periods for one or more events at a geographic location of the beacon device;

determining a concurrence between at least a portion of the time based-contextual data and user data associated with a user;

responsive to determining the concurrence, determining one or more notifications based at least in part on the time-based contextual data; and

providing for display at least one of the one or more notifications associated with the one or more events for which the corresponding one or more time periods have not expired, wherein providing for display at least one of the one or more notifications further comprises ranking the one or more notifications based at least in part on the geographic location of the beacon device and providing for display the notifications that are above a priority threshold.

15. The computing system of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining a location of the beacon device based at least in part on the beacon device identification;

providing the location of the beacon device to the user device; and

receiving, from the user device, a location of the user device, the location of the user device being determined based at least in part on the location of the beacon device.

16. The computing system of claim 14, wherein the user data comprises a user location and either a current time or a user specified time.

17. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-readable instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:

detecting a beacon device;

obtaining at least a portion of time-based contextual data associated with the beacon device, wherein the time-based contextual data comprises information associated with one or more time periods for one or more events at a geographic location of the beacon device;

determining a concurrence between at least a portion of the time based-contextual data and user data associated with a user;

responsive to determining the concurrence, determining one or more notifications based at least in part on the time-based contextual data; and

providing for display at least one of the one or more notifications associated with the one or more events for which the corresponding one or more time periods have not expired, wherein providing for display at least one of the one or more notifications further comprises ranking the one or more notifications based at least in part on the geographic location of the beacon device and providing for display the notifications that are above a priority threshold.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 17, wherein the operations comprise:

receiving user input associated with the at least one of the one or more notifications; and

responsive to the user input, performing one or more actions associated with the time-based contextual data.